Insecta - Diptera - Limoniidae
Alternative combination: Epiphragma spiloptera
Full reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1921. Fossil arthropods in the British Museum - VI. Oligocene insects from Gurnet Bay, Isle of Wight. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ninth Series 7:453-480
Belongs to Dactylolabis (Dactylolabis) according to W. Krzemiński 2019
See also Cockerell 1921
Sister taxa: Dactylolabis (Dactylolabis) amberifis, Dactylolabis (Dactylolabis) vetusta, Dactylolabis (Dactylolabis) viduus
Type specimen: BMNH I.9015, a wing. Its type locality is Bembridge Marls (Brodie coll), which is in a Priabonian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone in the Bouldnor Formation of the United Kingdom.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Bembridge Marls (Brodie coll)
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